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   dtroutma said, about 1 month ago

   Kid will now die of H1N1 because he couldn’t get the vaccine through his insurance? Remember, public plan IS public health care.

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   Magnaut said, about 1 month ago

   the only options are private not public… by fixing reimbursements the fed forced seniors on to medicare even the ones who could afford better………that’s publc…….option is ‘smoke and mirrors for the “trojan horse”… they want single payer…done that (in Canada and England) that you don’t want it

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   magnaut, your post confuses me. Most seniors purchase a medicare supplement and they can go from relatively inexpensive to quite expensive. So what are seniors being denied? If they can afford it, they can purchase a cadillac plan that takes care of everything.

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   Gary Kleppe said, about 1 month ago

   Meganut, I do want single-payer. Canada and England by any conceivable metric get better care than we do, for far less money.

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   Magnaut said, about 1 month ago

   GK…OK but my view of single-payer is I choose mine…you choose yours….why do you think you or the messiah should choose mine?

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   Gary Kleppe said, about 1 month ago

   M, think about it. When you talk about making a choice, you’re choosing what you won’t be covered for. (For many, of course, it isn’t a choice; either they can’t afford coverage or nobody will sell it to them because they’re deemed too much of a risk.)

   Under single-payer – what it really is, not your view of it whatever that may be – there’s no need to make that choice. Everybody is covered for all medically necessary services. What services you’ll actually get is up to your doctor, not up to me nor the President. The government will set general guidelines, but they won’t butt in on individual decisions the way insurance companies do now.

   The “messiah” thing is just idiotic, by the way. The last occupant of the White House, despite being a consistent screw-up, got far more blind devotion than Obama ever did. If you want to be taken seriously, this really doesn’t help.